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The crux of the matter is this: Will the legislation being pushed by the Minnesota Nurses Association actually solve the nursing shortage and improve patient outcomes?
In an email last week, Mayo Clinic leaders said the health care system would pull back about $4 billion in investments if two specific nursing bills pass.
When Mayo Clinic threatens to move facility investments of an estimated $4 billion from Minnesota, it is talking about “a multi-year, strategic initiative that ... focuses on Rochester.”
From the editorial: "To dismiss ... concerns as nothing more than corporate greed, as the nurses union and DFLers have done repeatedly for years, ... is irresponsible and ignores the realities of the current nursing-shortage crisis."
Minnesota’s most powerful corporations and biggest hospital systems are furiously lobbying Gov. Tim Walz and lawmakers as the legislative session enters its final days, hoping to stave off what they